In a word? No. No, he is not going to be the Yankees savior and the answer to all of their questions.

Here’s why:

The Yankees need a whole lot more help then one starting pitcher. This will give them The Rocket and Pettitte as their one two combination again, but several years later. Does these guys have same amount of gas left in the tank as they did when they last played in New York together? I don’t think so. Wang is grossly overrated, and the rest of the rotation is either injured, coming off injury, or freshly called up from the minors, including Phil Hughes, who is already on the DL after only two starts. You’d have to assume that Carl Pavano’s career is pretty much over too at this point. Sure he made an opening day start, but again has found himself on the DL. Kei Igawa has been horrible for them as well, giving a lot a taters and walking to many players. He was actually optioned back to their A league affiliated to go back and work on the basics again.

The Yankees relievers will all be totally gassed by the end of the season, if they stay on their current pace. I think a few weeks ago three of their relievers were well on their way to make over 100 appearances, which is pretty much unheard of nowadays. Most really durable relievers will make somewhere around 70 or 80 appearances.

Sure they’ve been mostly hitting the ball wall, namely A-Rod, but you can’t mash your way into the playoff usually. The Texas Rangers have shown that many times in the past, with some of the best hitting teams, but a horrible pitching staff.

The Yankees are in trouble right now, and in a bad way. I’d expect them to go crazy trade wise here in the next month or two in hopes of finding those missing links to take them to the playoffs. The only problem is they don’t have many holes to fill, especially offensively. The “holes” they have are a good fulltime first basemen. The duo of Josh Phelps and Doug Mientkiewicz isn’t exactly tearing the cover off the ball, but both are solid defenders. Both only have one error so far this season. Giambi is playing well at DH this season. Robinson Canó’s bat has slowed much in the past few weeks, but again he’s a pretty good defender and he’s the last batter in the lineup, and he’s really young, with a lot of promise. Then you get to Jeter and ARod who you’d never replace. In the outfield you have Matsui, Damon and Abreau with Melky Cabrera as your main backup, so you really don’t need the outfield help. Posada is showing his age behind the plate, but he’s got some good years left in him. That leaves the rotation and bullpen. You’d never ever consider trading for a new closer because Rivera is a for sure Hall of Famer, not to mention that he’s spent his entire career with the Yankees. You have solid setup men, but who have been severely over-worked. That leaves the rotation. You are given Clemens and Pettitte, Mussina, and Wang. You won’t trade/replace those guys. That just leaves the fifth spot in the rotation as the only real tradable spot. They also have some solid bench players too in Miguel Cairo and Wil Nieves.

It’s just not their year and The Chief needs to realize that.